Nancy Gohring

Seattle, WA USA
Website: http://ngohring.com
Contact

Professional Experience

I'm a full-time freelancer with clips from the New York Times, Wired, CNN/Money and The Economist. I write most often about technology but have written about a wide range of topics including letterpress printing, alcohol stills and backyard chickens. I'm working on stories related to the legalization of marijuana in Washington state and the takeover of hospitals by Catholic institutions. I've also branched out into science writing following a short stint writing about atmospheric science and oceanography research at the University of Washington. In addition to journalism writing, I'm a successful grant writer. For City Fruit, the nonprofit I helped found, I developed and wrote applications resulting in awards of tens of thousands of dollars from city, state and private funders, including foundations and individuals.

Expertise

Editor
7 Years
Reporter
15 Years
Writer
15 Years

Specialty

Philanthropy
5 Years
Science
1 Year
Technology
15 Years

Industries


Magazine - Trade magazines/publications (B2B)
4 Years
Newspaper - Local/Regional
2 Years
Wire Service
7 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

15 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

CITEworld (10+), ITworld (10+), Computerworld (6-10), CNN/Money (3-5), The Economist (6-10), The Magazine (3-5), Wired.com (1-2), MIT Technology Review (1-2), Seattle Magazine (1-2)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

City Fruit (nonprofit) (10+)

Other Work History

I wrote on staff in Dublin and Seattle for IDG News Service, a news wire serving hundreds of tech publications around the world. During my previous stint freelancing, I wrote a handful of stories for the New York Times. I also spent a few months on a temporary gig in the Seattle Times new room and wrote frequently for the paper on a freelance basis. Early in my career I wrote on staff for trade magazines including Telephony and Interactive Week. I was also a writer for Imagination Publishing, a custom publisher in Chicago. I also co-founded City Fruit, a nonprofit that collects and donates fruit from Seattle backyards. For five years I was the primary grant writer for City Fruit and successfully brought in tens of thousands of dollars from city, state and private funders.

Foreign Language Skills

Some Spanish, German and Bulgarian

Computer Skills

Office, Windows

Equipment

Laptop, audio recorder, digital camera

Awards

Story of the year award from IDG News Service for my investigative series that helped bring down a pyramid scheme.

Showcase

General

The Future of Intelligent Lighting
(Sky (Delta Airlines) 5/1/2014)
As municipalities and businesses replace old lighting with environmentally friendly LED lights, they're learning they can do a lot more with the fixtures.
Don't Call Us
(The Magazine on Medium 12/10/2013)
I write about going without Internet access while traveling in Belize.
Scavenging heat: Hot property
(The Economist 10/15/2013)
The City of Seattle is working with energy companies on a plan that would collect waste heat from downtown data centers to heat new buildings, including potentially one being built by Amazon.
The Third Man
(Seattle Magazine 6/1/2014)
Soon, nearly half the hospital beds in Washington will be managed by organizations related to Catholic healthcare providers. Patients should be aware that some Catholic institutions forbid doctors from activities including prescribing contraception for family planning or doing vasectomies.
The thief in the 3D printing world may not be who you think
(ITworld 7/19/2013)
Many people, including some at big corporations, are learning the hard way about copyright and patent issues in the 3D printing world.
Conflict over marijuana law puts WSU, farmers in bind
(Puget Sound Business Journal 2/21/2014)
Even though Washington farmers are asking agriculture researchers at WSU for advice about growing marijuana, WSU doesn't feel it can help them because federal laws still prohibit growing marijuana. Since much of WSU's funding comes from the federal government, the university has a lot to lose.
Supercomputers: Game on
(The Economist 3/10/2014)
One Major League Baseball team, which declined to be named, has invested in a supercomputer, according to the CEO of Cray, the company that sold the computer. The team will use it to analyze player performance in order to make decisions during games.
Mike McCaw's Stills Boil and Steam Local Moonshine
(Seattle Magazine 12/1/2013)
A retired Weyerhaeuser scientist makes stills that are used in distilleries around the world.
Enterprises launch their own private clouds
(CNN/Money 6/18/2013)
More enterprises are building their own private clouds.
Don't Touch That Dial! Low-Power Radio Is About to Make FM Hot Again
(Wired 2/28/2013)
In what will be the largest expansion of FM radio in the nation's history, the Federal Communications Commission will begin distributing licenses to registered nonprofit organizations that want to start low-power FM radio stations.
Own your own Cray supercomputer for a mere $500,000
(CNN/Money 5/7/2013)
The legendary Cray came out with one of its least expensive supercomputers.
Making fancy fertiliser
(The Economist 6/22/2014)
A Seattle company just sold machines to seven Whole Foods Grocery stores that will turn food waste into fertilizer that can be used on organic farms.
Your Android phone could help scientists predict your weather
(Wired 1/7/2013)
Few people with Android phones realize their phones can measure atmospheric pressure. A University of Washington scientist is working with an app maker to collect pressure data from Android phones in hopes of better predicting severe weather events.
Managing a vacation
(The Economist 12/21/2012)
Most people wouldn't think of using a spreadsheet, commonly used by accountants, to plan a Disney vacation. But it turns out that many Disney enthusiasts use and share spreadsheets to make the most of their visits to the theme park.
NGO networks in Haiti cause problems for local ISPs
(IDG News Service/New York Times 2/22/2010)
When NGO descended into Haiti following the devastating hurricane, they built their own communications networks. More than a month after the hurricane, however, those networks were competing with those built by local companies desperate for customers.
Emissions from Dell, Microsoft data centers worry residents
(Computerworld 7/13/2011)
Residents of a tiny Washington town worry that exhaust from diesel generators used by new data centers in town will be bad for their health.
Critically endangered whales sing like birds; new recordings hint at rebound
(University of Washington 7/31/2012)
A UW scientists was surprised at the variety and volume of songs she recorded of bowhead whales in the Fram Strait. The recordings could signal a rebound for the endangered whales or indicate a unique singing pattern for bowheads.
Data Harvesting. Farmers consider -- and worry about -- large-scale cloud-based data collection
(The Magazine 5/22/2014)
Big data has come to agriculture. But farmers worry about what it means to hand over valuable data about their operations to the likes of Monsanto.
Experiment would test cloud geoengineering as way to slow warming
(University of Washington 8/20/2012)
A University of Washington expert says it's better for scientists to study geoengineering than leave it up to groups that might have ulterior motives.
T-Mobile subsidy cut will be "disaster," Telefonica exec says
(CITEworld 12/12/2012)
When T-Mobile announced it was eliminating phone subsidies, an executive from Telefonica, which tried the same thing in Spain, predicted that T-Mobile faces "disaster."
Dell to wait for OpenStack to mature, will launch public cloud late next year
(ITworld 1/3/2012)
I broke the news that Dell would delay for a year the launch of its public cloud service.
Because it's there: putting Everest online
(New York Times 1/23/2003)
The grandson of one of the sherpas to accompany Edmond Hilary on the first successful climb of Mt. Everest built a wireless network that offered Internet access to climbers at base camp. The more important plan was to use the same equipment to provide distance learning to impoverished schools nearby during the climbing off season.